Book description
Cyril Dabydeen's new collection of stories, North of the
Equator, looks at the polarities of tropical and temperate
places. Acclaimed novelist Sam Selvon (The Lonely Londoners)
says, "Dabydeen is in the vanguard of contemporary
short-story writers, shuttling with equal and consummate skill from
rural Guyana to metropolitan Canada." Dabydeen's
characters occupy the spaces in between. They live in limbo, stretched
between two worlds: one, an adopted home in Canada; the other, a
birthplace in the islands scattered across the equator.
Cyril Dabydeen has published more than a dozen books of prose and
poetry in the United Kingdom and Canada, including the novel Dark
Swirl and the story collections My Brahmin Days, Black
Jesus and Other Stories, and Jogging in Havana. The City
of Ottawa appointed him Poet Laureate in the mid-1980s and granted him
the first Award of Excellence for Writing and Publishing. He lives in
Ottawa, ON.
